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Chapter 11 of 25 · FRAT · Flight Risk Assessment

Score the riskbefore you dispatch.

Score a flight's risk before it goes: weighted factors for crew, weather, airport, aircraft and operation combine into one pre-departure number. Thresholds decide whether the flight proceeds, needs a mitigation, or requires a sign-off, and every score is kept so the trend across the fleet is visible over time.

In the operation
FRATFlight Risk Assessment
4capabilities
2record types
3linked modules
The scene
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The flight scores
A Northgale crew opens the flight risk assessment before an evening rotation into a short, wet runway. The factors score from the catalog, the total crosses the review threshold, and dispatch sees it before the aircraft moves.
Why it holds

A threshold gates dispatch, it does not just colour a cell.

The weighted factors produce a number the operation acts on: below the line it proceeds, above it a mitigation or a sign-off is required. Scores are retained, so a rising trend across a route or a season is a signal, not a surprise.

What it does

The capabilities, on one record.

Pre-departure scoring

Crew, weather, airport, aircraft and operation combine into one weighted risk score before dispatch.

Threshold gates

Bands decide proceed, mitigate or escalate for sign-off, so the score changes what happens next.

Score trend

Every assessment is retained, so rising risk across a route, fleet or season is visible.

Linked to the operation

A high score can raise a hazard or feed an occurrence, so the assessment is part of the operational picture.

The records it produces

Real records, one reference each.

Every record carries a stable reference and a source on every field. Nothing is silently overwritten, and the trail is the record.

The score is computed from weighted factors, not guessed

A threshold gates dispatch, it does not just warn

Every score is retained for the trend

High risk links back into the operation

FRAT
Risk assessments
Weighted, pre-departure scores.
HAZ
Hazards
Raised when a score runs high.
The gate

Elevated risk routes to a person.

A flight that scores past the threshold cannot be self-approved. It routes to the named reviewer with the factors visible, and the decision is recorded.

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12 · Aerodrome Risk

The flight is assessed before it departs. The next chapter does the same for the ground the operation stands on: the aerodrome.